- Featured
Fantasy
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.
Young Adult
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
An eleven-year-old learns he is a wizard, and a generation learned to read on it.
- Genre
- Young Adult
- Audience
- Children · Young Adult
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- School story
- Series
- Middle grade
About the book
The first book in the series introduces Hogwarts, its houses and its staircases, in a school story with a mystery running underneath.
Why we recommend it
Still the most reliable book for turning a reluctant reader into a reader.
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